The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-01-08
a LOST IDENTITY.
hf HARRIET PRESCOTT sporroRD.
copyrighted. 1857. by 8. 8. Mcclure
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| hf HARRIET PRESCOTT spoFroRD.
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And Helena-shs Kept feeling that nov
1t was time to die-all other moments IL
life would geem pale and thin beside thes,
supreme ones, "How beautiful you arc +
he cried. "Your Dyes have light In then
that does not belong to earth, and you,
smiles 10 only tho expression Of an innel
beatty q a,.t, .;.',iiI,.s ~ =
"Hush, hush lF'she naid. "You neve,
used to speak to me co."
"And perhaps mover shall again, ]
gaem never 10 have seen or thought OF Il
before. But It ia not for your beauty that
love you. Itwouli DO all the same with
me II you were scsrrsd and matred, But
| must speak now; this once must Law
my soul bare and let you know how preci.
Gus you ar0 10 me. | munt look at Il INV.
self. l'nevcr knew 1t till thia year began.
Singular ,phcnomenon-this love-it 10 q
burden. 1t Ia a do!or, but oh, what un-
Hpeakable delicious dolor |" ID fsT-
And tho maiden to whom this feryid
love was rendered slept upon the cloud0
by night, and seemed 10 walk track Of
sunbeams Tito heaven itself by day. All
things shared her happines5, tho people
In the house ard on the ntreet, the pest.
man or the tramp. it was move. cloudy
weather when abe flIrg that smile across
their, way. 1t seemed good to old staid
old folk whose heyGay was long over, like
Aunt Annnb!e or Aunt Betty, 10 sec such
irradia,ing bliss in the world and 1t was
good Tor all who crossed her path; she
wanted them to hs glad oi her gladness,
snG she p!tled them 30 much 10 think
they could net have that gladncss for
for them. "
The loyera would probable have been
married st once, had not the death Of
lielen's UNCLE, with WHOM she had alwaYo
llrpd, sod tie discovery OF his ipsolyent
estate, leaving her the three aunts with
no ore but herself on whom to rely,
necessarily postponed matters little.
She ma1l5 arrangements at ouce t. tss..1
the scholgFa Lett aits3 siguer HiuaapTass 90.
parture. and che played the organ Tor an
early church, ard received a salary for
singing III. the choir OF later one. And
abe stipulated before che married 10 be
allowed to coItinuo fhiu course. Bat
what sweetness that years engseemsnt
added to her life! When che was used
to remember i! afterward,, it seemed Only
like one long, bright summers DIR,
fe.sWseg GO tEa: wal, the married life
vas syeeter. Leonard prospered in his
profession; sand the. goodness Of two or
.hree grateful patients, who died at last,
gave him the means to buy Grsssness, q
tmsll estate upon the mountain side
which they had long covsted. 1t was q
trihe too far away from the town for a
physician's convenience, but he had his
office hours in town, and had sEcceedod
60 we'll that he could afford Indifference
as to the accessibility Of his house. What
pleasure they had in besutiiyipg the
place! Every rose they planted, thoy
planted together. !'Thsir blossoms viii
seem 10 be your BREATH" be es;d.
Over all lowered the dsrk forest Of pines.
II will never hRve one Of them cut down."
he eaid. "We have Get beneath them 40
much that they haze Jed and grown great
on our hsppiness; something Of you has
gone into them, Helena. When We are
apart | always feel you there as see the
stars shining through them. There shall
be no change hars 50 long as you are the
pole-star Of my being" $50
"But the earth swings to new pole .stars,"
she said mischievously, e.d then pretent-
ing the mischief. ,!.,i'is':'''
They had the satisfaction Of children in
arranging the interior Of the house, also ;
this room looked out upon purple noun:
tain view it should be fitted in old.gold
plush, and the tiles around the fireplace
should be done in deepest cIimeon JAG
quemiuo. Yoses. This room opened on the
rushing brook and its still, deep pool, like
4 bit OF fallen sky; its culors lighted with
crystals, should be the cool blues that
doubted if they were not greens, like
Enid's.
y Splendid slik OF foreign looms
Where ,iEe shoaling lea The lovely blue
flaye0 into green. sFls'- - : - ~
This room, lesdinginto tho etudy,Ghould
be full OF flowers and gay with summer
ahintz; and tho library should have the
velvet, mossy shadows OF eunlit woods.
Che aunts were coming to live with them,
the aunts whom Leonard loved as much
as sha did; and Helena claspel her hands
in Joy hundred times q day to think
what home 1t wSs, and how perfect the
days would be in it. They hung the pic.
tges toge.her-chietly I.eonard's water
polors~-liiting and lowering them and
standing back and admiring them and
each other, and they set up their hooks
and arranged the detGils Of thsit house,
keeping plane, sil In Lconerd's spare nc.
menta and there was not, speaking loose,
ly, o particle Of duat in the house that had
not conn,c cd with it aone a9ooiation
Iome romanco, come lasts of4their lives
Tor both Of them. The day that they
moved in was almost as much to Helens
as the day y hen, crying and laushing To-
gether, her iace like sun and rainbowt
and April showers, she kissed her aunts
and went away, having become in Law thai
part of Leonard which shs had alVsys
been in fact, ITO walk 10 the end Of the
world together no said. 5.5 q
She eat on the doorstep ono night, yesrs
afterward, looking down the blue mist Of
the gore that long beam Was Just light.
ing with ito dusty GOLD, and life seemed
to her to stretch away like an endless
path among the Islands Of the Bleat.
What union was hers aud ], leonardo,
she mu9ed. They read the game books
together, and re-read the cd ones; they
almost thought tho same thoughts TO.
gether; they grew more alike each day
they had dropped the old Quarrels about
matters remote as the Puritaus, possibly
for new ones, but where they differed
tbs difference only frightened their livoa
with gayety. Yet they had had their
trophies togetherj at G'tat some effort to
make both ends meet, some amazsment
to Helena to find her husband mortal
leuauph to like hia aonn clear and his